Entries tagged “Javier Bardem”
Watch your mouth.
By Alison Willmore on 09/11/2008
Filed under: In quotes"My apologies." --Viggo Mortensen, after going off about the things "that have been happening in the last eight years in this country," and being reminded that he's actually in Toronto, from the New York Times. "Contrary to what I was quoted as saying, I feel very proud of my country and through my work I have always tried to contribute to its culture within and outside Spain and to honour my people." --Javier Bardem backpedals after calling the Spanish "a bunch of stupid people" in an earlier interview, from the Indepedent. "My wife Tonya told me I may have hurt... MORE »
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Critic wrangle: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
By Alison Willmore on 08/15/2008
Filed under: Critic wrangleAs many have pointed out, it's damning "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" with faint praise to call it Woody Allen's best film since "Match Point," a minimal achievement if ever there was one. I liked the film at Cannes, and like it even more in retrospect, where it seems a little crueler, for all that it looks like a soft-focus sex farce. Reviews are, for the most part, quite good. "[M]aybe it was the Gaudi architecture or the restorative Mediterranean breeze," muses Michael Koresky at indieWIRE, "but on a very basic level, 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' works, flowing along even and steady, and... MORE »
Cannes 08: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
By Alison Willmore on 05/17/2008
Filed under: Festivals, ReviewsHere's a sentence I wasn't expecting to write: Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" is... fun. It's not sexy, despite all the buzz about the Scarlett Johansson/Javier Bardem/Penélope Cruz menage and sapphic snuggling between Johansson and Cruz, which, sorry to disappoint, consists only of an ungainly kiss. But it is an enjoyable fling of a film, and enjoyment is something that seemed to have dropped off Allen's list of interests entirely. His European excursions post-"Match Point" haven't lived up to that film's promise of auteurist rejuvenation, but rather than try out more cultural ventriloquism this time around on the guitar, Allen... MORE »
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